the number of homeless people is only expected to rise. going to me to some of those living on the streets it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's nowhere for you to go to trial and no money in your pockets this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to bamiyan the case capital for homelessness. remember. i think. it should drop grandma don't have one. but. i mean we shouldn't be home or there's a lot of people who called me a short time underneath a car park where people live. all over the place this is what i got. there yeah yeah and regional here michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty

ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of birmingham you don't think again people can see you could be walking past you can be sleeping next to warsaw. for. coldness is stupid specially this time we have to go for four days on the phone to eight twenty one year old much fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a birmingham hostel it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet looking for work. on the dole no log no job and from the moment trying to get it stan you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in an out of foster care he's struggled to keep a roof over his head you going to do whatever it takes to find somewhere to sleep

following morning. help and support scariest thing like you know you still go face all over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presented as homeless having creased on average by about four hundred percent. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on the streets came true of deprived areas in birmingham there are people that don't have working. with it being such a one time in industrialised center working class families but those jobs just

don't exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breaking the poverty and the reason the reason big mix of paper in the population is expanding the housing stock is and you know it's reached that point where it's just spilling over and can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate prole many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates probably boyko r t birmingham. the u.s. senate panel approves john kerry as an egge secretary of state as the nation's new format to take up the job we ask how different will he be from the sets of. great. pride to time for the business now with k.j. bill but pilbeam katie i'm getting a name wrong there and they're the wrong day of the market so tell me oh yeah there's a mission there's

a financial mission that marco is trying to what's going on what they want to be one of the big financial centers of the world and the government they've gone on about this for a long time and particularly prime minister medvedev he's really keen on the idea he wants to be out there with london hong kong wall street but they they do have to work like i say there's lots of work to be done in order to achieve that and that's why i'm going to be talking about the business boating coming up just in a moment's time to it sounds exciting will be watching.

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on a mission to become one of the leading wall financial centers bob is good is what counts now considering russia's capital now sits sixty fourth place among seventy seven global financial hubs and watched as prime minister medvedev has held a governmental meeting to discuss moscow's patience and i'm joined now by our correspondent and i thought i had a if you do tell me the burning question is where when and why i should say is this . not so assented. if we set out ok it says they will think about that very very that's what i have said today at the meeting there will be a special working group set up there to decide where yet another cluster of banks and other organizations will be built and it will become finally become a heart of the find ourselves it's funny you say that they because you just said another i thought i'd already seen the whole of moscow i mean you know what a lot also is the skyscrapers are about. to one is not enough so what about one two

three four what if. i was going to contradict myself here because if i think about london and wall street hong kong they don't just have one cluster of buildings do they for five. listen just picking a place in one of two or three places in the same day and building several skyscrapers doesn't make a world financial sound and today the those responsible for turning moscow into a financial hub pointed out a lot of moscow problems that keep the city on the bottom of the rating. problem of moscow traffic jams a lack of economy class hotels lack of legal quality real estate available for rent an absence of multi language and education through the city shortage of english speaking health care organizations we have to solve all these problems in order to create an international financial center. you know just listening to that just now tony i've got to say that sounds like a lot of work that's no picnic that's no walk in the park and it's certainly something that's not going to happen overnight and i mean they were i'm not trying

to be funny but thinking about. not renowned for being. what i was actually more positive because physical infrastructure is secondary to the financial infrastructure now this is what the government should focus on as today they said that in long carrots for the international investors still be tax benefits proper regulation deep capital markets and i should say that russia indeed in this sphere russia is making some progress for example last year russia's two stock market however have merged you're going to. get i think ok but overall overall the financial infrastructure needs changing it's becoming more healthy and competitive as the head of russia's second largest bank we have to be told us in davos. i should say that russian banking sector industry is one of the most competitive. nearly one thousand banks in

russia. there's a major international bangs. presence in russia so shouldn't say there's not enough banks or there's not enough competition and again the search is one of the most competitive we should go to for clients and we would like to increase competition and we are eager to do so right you see it proves what i said no interesting stuff absolutely you know what a fabulous tall buildings going to moscow. but i thank you very much indeed for the time thank you. and we'll move on then the federal reserve begins its two day monetary policy meeting today investors are watching closely for some clues on when or indeed if the fed will reign in stimulus measures which means the bond markets are particularly edges expected by economists that the fed will remain its monetary policy of aggressive easing at the end of the meetings and will keep it in place until there are signs of broad based expansion professor of

economics at yale university a leg to vince lies the two major problems facing washington. when their life over to the united states with this regard is twofold first is the significant expansion of that during the time all flights in the recent financial crisis the unprecedented increase in the government that all this down would have to meet sometime so for the solution is to believe that by using facts to all of them by cutting down the government. the second problem of the second more and more important problem than just the monitor of the debt ceiling or the fiscal cliff to use the significant force in an economic policy that's five years ago is facing. in terms that you asked me face problems with the service and it's it's. probably you know the lunatic second now this possibility

that perhaps not they're all right. still is on. and this is just a byproduct waltz in washington of economics of the kind of false if you emotional for the economy in the right. right token of the economy let's check out the u.s. markets they do remain minutes ago the dow continuing north around hoffer percent that five year high despite u.s. confidence coming out. really knocked by taxes in spots over in washington the games are on the dow thanks to corporate earnings from drug micah finds on energy shows up the lera reporting a twenty fold gain in profit that the two standout stocks to me the nasdaq down a fraction the footsie in london also had a good day of it which indicates that investors are expectant of more such a bike stimulus going forward as it was the standout gain is a dock also managed to finish up above the line although ford might has warned

about its weakening business in europe today as were some green tinge is russia markets had a disappointing day as you can see that but the r.t.s. on the my six firmly entrenched in negative territory. which check out the ruble than high all the current says higher against the u.s. dollar and the euro that. and gas problem will pile further costs into the south stream project by expanding its pipelines to take gas to south stream europe and bypassing transit countries ukraine and belarus now russia's gas giant will add nearly seventy billion dollars which makes the projected total a staggering thirty eight point four billion dollars and the pipeline is already thought to be an unnecessary expense by some of us who question whether south stream is needed giving the flagging demand for russian gas in the most lucrative market europe russia's response is that is needed in order to diversify supply

routes to the european union after disputes with ukraine led to cut offs for parts of europe back in two thousand and six two thousand and nine which was a major blow for both parties considering russia supplies around a quarter of europe's gas needs in total. moving on then cyprus is counting on european union leaders to allow russia to support the struggling economy now the country's prime minister told a state radio station that the e.u. are trying to work out if russia is able to participate along with international tenders in a financial aid package for cyprus now officially because there has only ever quested that a two point five billion euro loan pavement received twenty eleven from moscow and to be paid back in twenty six days be extended by five more years now germany has also cast doubt over the bailout criticizing cypriot banks as being havens for tax

evaders and money launderers for russian oligarchs despite its small seventeen point five billion euro recession hit economy there are fears that if cyprus is allowed to default then it could trigger another crisis in the euro zone the spread of contagion. and that's all the business that for now i'll be about some my birthday without say the tabby at night so give you all the latest news updates. to news sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build one of those most sophisticated robots which are unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care watch only on the algae dot com.

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president barack obama has met with police chiefs from such ease in the u.s. with mass shootings have occurred here once a support for a view of the country's gun control policy obama's proposal of tougher gun regulations and a ban on assault weapons has divided public opinion many americans us standing by the constitution second amendment the right to bear arms and she can report. white house proposals to regulate gun sales there are a wave of protest among those who believe the second amendment of the constitution is in danger as our amendment that there are a right arms it is a god given right to the sanctity of the second amendment i meet heated national debate someone makers of even threaten to impeach the president to protect the constitution we're going to use every tool possible to fight in the ministration which wants to ever get the constitution but do u.s. lawmakers feel strongly about all amendments of that same constitution last month

congress seamlessly without much ado passed legislation which gives the government sweeping powers to eavesdrop on communications and review e-mails of anyone they want it's called the foreign intelligence surveillance act the president amendments act completely is an infringement on your fourth amendment right against unlawful search and seizure and basically does away with the probable cause requirement there's been no national debate on the fourth amendment the mainstream media have been mute on the subject so to score it now as people don't even know about it if you're really savvy and you read a lot of online media you might have heard about pfizer being reauthorized otherwise you're just totally unaware of it and how can you have an opinion on something that you're unaware of that proved to be true as we went out to ask people whether they knew what feisal was than what it could do to their fourth amendment rights have you heard about five. letters no no i'm sorry i think i have some idea that it has to do with our taxes but i don't really know but not

surprisingly the same people that have opinions on gun control to keep our guns were pretty pro-gun control right now the government spying bill is not the only legislation that sneaked under the radar of public debate indefinite detention of americans without trial made legal is seen by many lawyers as a blatant violation of the fifth amendment which guarantees due process that was. something that should have been discussed in the presidential debates people were begging the moderators to mention those so it was never mentioned it was just not a part of the debates because if you should maybe so you could too many in the us but it seems in washington to bypass it it's enough to say to magic words national security the bill is passed these bills i feel like all that has to happen is literally like dianne feinstein waves a letter and says national security and the fear mongering begins and shuts down any kind of debate yet we're having a freewheeling debate on guns some argue it's money that keeps the gun debate at

the forefront the national rifle association reportedly spent around twenty four million dollars on congressional elections last year and even more on lobbying to an extent when even as the majority of americans as polls show support some regulation on guns gun is dizziness believe no substantive legislation will be passed by the congress so he is not going to be able to get anything through congress so i think that the second amendment will be ok the media in the us essentially broke into two camps each bringing all kinds of arguments against the other both sides again and again reading into the text of the second amendment or doing what proposal would or would not be infringe on the people's rights as nasty as they get sometimes but that's what a national debate should look like but one can't help asking where was that big that huge debate when other liberties were at stake in washington i'm going to

check up. on our website run now while people vent their anger at government cuts reeses finance minister is painting a bright future for the country by know the source of his optimism at our feet dot com. plus a road landmark is about to get a facelift the luxury fashion brand is ready to. alton moon's voice restoration had online for all the details of. the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has approved president obama's nomination of john kerry as the next secretary of state he was chosen to succeed hillary clinton stepping down after four years in the job for more on what awaits us in american foreign policy with this the point we're now joined live by michael prize law and iraq war veteran from the onset and to war coalition michael we've seen john kerry being seemingly pro and anti war at the same time which side of him are we

likely to see when he starts his job as secretary of state. well we will see the pro war side no doubt you know we can't say for sure though that there is no change in u.s. policy with a new secretary of state coming in into office in any bureaucracy there is different factions and tendencies and strategic outlooks within that establishment for example when hillary clinton took the position of secretary of state she brought an entire staff with her to the administration primarily those who were major proponents of the right to protect policy which we saw play out in the libya war and john kerry will do the same thing he will bring his staff and his faction into the administration one apparent difference that we have seen so far with kerry is that some recent statements that showed that he has a much harder line in some sort of the colonial apartheid settler state of israel so we can't say for certainty what changes kerry will bring but we do know that any

changes that do happen will be completely with in this unchanging overarching strategic framework which is to dominate the earth's resources is an economy of the entire earth for us banks and corporations at the expense of everybody necessary and that washington is a controversial regime change policy the fruits of which was seeing right now in africa and the middle east has been praised as a triumph by barack obama and hillary clinton do you think mr kerry will follow the triangle will he come up with his own you know lieut. well like i said it's going to be within this framework as well and you know there's all kinds of illusions that go on in the united states of america to create the appearance of some real democracy or a representative government or the fact that there can be these major shift in policy towards other countries in the world and one of these allusions is this back and forth between the democratic party and the republican party and many liberals

in the united states who now may be arguing that john kerry could bring a more anti-war perspective to the administration many liberals argue that democrats in the second term will take a more progressive line because they say oh the first term they just had to play the game and not do they really wanted to do with the second term that's when they can really take positions that are in the interest of the people and the interest of people who want peace and and things like that but look at the most recent example with democratic president bill clinton where in his second term many liberals argued that he endured be big changes in u.s. policy towards cuba and iraq and countries like that in fact it was in the second term that the clinton administration tighten the sanctions on cuba and inactive the iraqi liberation act which is what cemented the genocidal sanctions that killed over a million iraqis mostly children and the u.s. policy of regime change in the region so really what we can take from this is that whatever personalities are in the white house the essence of u.s.

foreign policy remains rooted in imperialism and empire building and only the people not politicians can change that well let's talk a little bit about this in terms of his peace making efforts israel palestinian conflict how much of a peacemaker will he be. well the u.s. government very much wants some kind of solution in is in palestine because it's really it goes against u.s. interest for israel to be carrying out the type of strategy that they're carrying out now which is constant expand jan and massive human rights violations of course united states want to protect israel as this garrison state in the region this attack dog in the region that's meant to serve us imperial interests in the region but of course there's this kind of back and forth between the interests of the israeli government and the interests of the u.s. government but we do know that john kerry very recently has taken a very strong stance like every other politician in favor of the israeli government

over the interests of the palestinian people who are the victims in this situation so again on this issue we're going to see more of the same which is imperial interests all over the world michael an iraq war veteran from the antiwar coalition thank you for your time and you. my that brings us to the end of this block all more news in just under five minutes you stay with us here on r.t. . do we speak your language as i think about the will or not of the. news programs and documentaries and spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn to tip angles couldn't stories. or you hear.

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